| LC control no. | n 79109792 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Amherst College |
| See also | Predecessor: Collegiate Institution (Amherst, Mass.) Amherst Academy (Amherst, Mass.) Membership corporate body: Five Colleges, Inc. |
| Other standard no. | Q49165 133115330 0000000419367320 |
| Beginning date | 1824 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Amherst (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Education, Higher |
| Affiliation | Five Colleges, Inc. |
| Found in | Touchstone, 1937- NUCMC data from Andover Newton Theol.Sch. Lib. for Park, E.A. Papers, 1835-1899 (Amherst College) Tyler, W.S. A hist. of Amherst Coll., 1895 (Amherst Academy, the "mother" of Amherst College; trustees of Academy, also trustees of college during early days of college; Academy opened 1814; in 1815 estab. Charity Fund (rec'd contributions from thousands of people throughout NE states) for purpose of providing free instruction to young men seeking ministerial training; cornerstone laid 1820 for Collegiate Institution (on property adjacent to the Academy); in 1824 chartered as Amherst College; in 1815 controversy arose concerning poss. move of Williams College to a more centralized location; also of possible merger of the two colleges; petitions denied by Mass. legis.) Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014 (Founded 1821) Wikipedia, June 7, 2016 (Amherst College; a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts; founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts; was established as a men's college and became coeducational in 1975; member of the Five Colleges consortium) |
| Associated language | eng |
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